Top 66 Run Your Own Race Quotes
#1. Each person walks a journey unique to himself or herself. Live your own journey and run your own race.
Winsome Campbell-Green
#2. Don't spend all your time trying to win over your critics. Just run your own race.
Joel Osteen
#3. You weren't created to be unhappy in order to keep everyone else happy. Run your own race.
Joel Osteen
#4. Run your own race at an even pace. Consider the course, the temperature, the weather, and most importantly, your current level of fitness.
Marty Liquori
#5. You can't depend on other people, you have to run your own race.
Joan Benoit
#6. Run your own race. Fear creeps in when we compare ourselves too much with others.
Sanchita Pandey
#7. Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is 'Am I progressing?'
Robin Sharma
#8. A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: 'Run your own race, put on your blinders.'
Joan Rivers
#9. From today onwards, take complete control of your life. Decide, once and for all, to be the master of your fate. Run your own race. Discover your calling and you will start to experience the ecstasy of an inspired life.
Robin S. Sharma
#10. If you want to improve your life and live with all that you deserve, you must run your own race. It doesn't matter what other people say about you. What is important is what you say to yourself, being comfortable in your own skin. Be true to you. That's a key source of happiness.
Robin S. Sharma
#11. I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching.
Danica Patrick
#12. I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country ... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.
Edward Brooke
#13. Throughout your career people will try to distract you. Some will scream at you, others will say things behind your back, and a few feral animals will literally try to throw their stiletto heel in in your lane and trip you. Keep your eyes straight ahead and just run your race.
Sharyn Alfonsi
#14. I just loved the driving part. If I didn't race anybody, it didn't make any difference as long as I could drive. It's just the physical part of getting in the car and being able to go run fast and being able to drive.
Kyle Petty
#15. I can say when it comes to championships it's a tactical race and normally you don't have a pacesetter who can set a pace for fast times. That is why you see that obviously we fall around 1:43 because that is the most favorable one can run from the front.
David Rudisha
#16. A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
Steve Prefontaine
#17. You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race
David Bowie
#18. When the race gets hard to run. It means you just can't take the peace.
Bob Marley
#19. The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.
William Zinsser
#20. Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.
Erma Bombeck
#21. On our track to success, we have to fight the tendency to look at others and see how far they've come. The only thing that counts is how we use the potential we possess and that we run our race to the best of our abilities.
Denis Waitley
#22. Power Thought: I will not give up. I will run my race with perseverance and finish with joy.
Joyce Meyer
#23. You can take pride in yourself without comparing yourself to anybody else. If you run your race and be the best that you can be, then you can feel good about yourself.
Joel Osteen
#24. Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race
Matt Ridley
#25. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#26. We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
Bayard Taylor
#27. Run the Race till the End, no one knew what would happen next second. Serve your purpose.
Giridhar Alwar
#28. My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run.
Allyson Felix
#29. If I performed poorly, I knew the eyes of the sports world would be turned away from me. In that situation I knew the NCAA would crush me for sure. But if I could run well, they would not dare to hit me with everyone looking in my direction. I HAD to have a good race.
Gerry Lindgren
#31. I'm a runner. Not a race runner, but I just love to run, and I don't think I've ever tasted such amazing food like I've tasted in the whole entire New York.
Adan Canto
#32. I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.
Alberto Salazar
#33. It is never wise to run any race but your own.
Tim Fargo
#34. Explore your limits and get to know yourself. You'll never feel more real than after the hardest workout, the longest run, the toughest week, or the best race of your life. Constantly make your own standards tougher.
Luke Watson
#35. God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit.
LeCrae
#36. Stop comparing yourself to others. You have your own race to run. Finish well.
Lecrae Moore
#37. There will be always be people stronger and not as strong, smarter, and not quite as smart. It's best not to get into the race at all: Just run your own.
Tricia McCallum
#39. Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.
Julian May
#40. I can't run my own race. I'm constantly checking what's happening in the other lanes.
Laura Buzo
#42. Here Hillary Clinton is probably the most qualified person based on experience to ever run for president of the United States, and then this guy gets into the race, Bernie Sanders, and suddenly everybody goes, "Look at him. He's a real contender - "
Christy Clark
#43. Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.
Asafa Powell
#44. Sarah Palin has managed to use her failed vice presidential run to put herself in a position of power and influence. Joe Biden won the race and he hasn't been able to put himself in a position of power and influence.
Craig Ferguson
#45. I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.
Oscar Pistorius
#46. I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race.
Marla Runyan
#47. Run the Race till the End, Even the result already known to be negative.
Giridhar Alwar
#48. I can't do the whole run but I am able to start the race and I will be there at the end when winners cross the line.
Fabrice Muamba
#49. You're trying to figure out who you are when you're younger. However, once you've found yourself, you run your race, and you run in your own lane.
LeCrae
#50. In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he's tired. Everyone is. That's not the point. The point is to run.
Seth Godin
#51. Straight is the way to Acheron,
Whether the spirit's race is run
From Athens or from Meroe:
Weep not, far from home to die;
The wind doth blow in every sky
That wafts us to that doleful sea.
John Addington Symonds
#52. Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.
Samantha Harvey
#53. A winner forgets he's in a race, he just loves to run.
Joe Pesci
#54. You will be bitter in life, when you compare yourself with others.Run the race of life at your own pace.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#55. For all the marathons I've run, including the Ironmans that I've run, immediately after the race, I clean myself up, do whatever I need to do to make sure I'm okay, and I get right back out there, and I cheer people on. Because it's the people who come in late in the race I find most inspiring.
Casey Neistat
#56. It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. But since I have been a young lad, I have had my eyes on a different prize. You see, each one of us is in a greater race than any I have run in Paris, and this race ends when God gives out the medals.
Eric Liddell
#57. How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.
John Wooden
#58. There's an old adage that for every second too fast per mile in the first half of the race, you'll run at least 2 seconds slower at the end.
Jeff Galloway
#59. If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do.
Rod Dixon
#60. My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win ... channel your energy. Focus.
Carl Lewis
#61. New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.
Don Kardong
#62. Run your race. It's the only one that will count in eternity.
Robin M. Bertram
#63. I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.
Brad Grey
#64. The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.
Frank Shorter
#65. He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.
Benjamin E. Mays
#66. Narcissism, detachment, schizoid personality, sociopath - these things run rampant in the human race in varying degrees.
C.C. Hunter
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